Biography

Nicolò Sertorio (1968, Princeton NJ USA) is an internationally exhibited artist with over 15 years of experience in visual storytelling.

Nicolò works in fine art and commercial photography, mixed media, collaboration, and conceptual art. His photos directly respond to the surrounding environment by emphasizing aesthetics and everyday experiences. He seduces the viewer into a world thorn between equilibrium and the break of current issues by exploring the concept of landscape in the ‘romantic’ way of old European masters. His works sometimes radiates a latent violence and inner drama, while disconcerting beauty also emerges among the multiple layers of meaning. With his conceptual approach, Nicolò Sertorio investigates the dynamics of ‘landscape’, including its manipulation and the limits on our assumptions of what it means to us.

In past years he has lived in Italy, Switzerland, Ireland, Belgium, India, France, Germany and United States, and his work reflects those different cultural and aesthetic influences. His work has won several important awards, including American Photography 33+32+30+29, International Color Awards 2016-15-14-13, International Landscape Photographer of the Year top 101, Prix de la Photo Paris, PDN Photo of the Day, The Center for Fine Art Photography ‘Portfolio ShowCase 6’, Photo Week DC International Awards, among others. His work has been featured in Wired Magazine, LensCulture, Kontura Art (Croatia), Domus, AdWeek, Fraction, Double Takes, Time, Curator, Format, Nacional (Croatia), Total Croatia News, Fast Company, Bokeh Bokeh, Feature Shoot, Google ChromeCast, AIGA, Wacom, and ViewFind. In 2017 and 2015 Nicolò Sertorio was recognized and selected as Critical Mass fine art photographer at Portland’s Photo Lucida. In 2016, solo exhibitions traveled across US (Philadelphia) and Croatia (Koprivnica Art Gallery, Split Diocletian Palace, Virovitica Castle) museums.

Sertorio’s works tells a story about the effect of global cultural interaction between Self and Others, between our egocentric and human sides. His series are notable for their conceptual nature and the grand humanistic importance in his approach.

Nicolò Sertorio currently lives and works in Oakland (CA), USA. He is board member for PhotoAlliance.